Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise
- Movies
- 2015-08-08
- EN
- Released
- 1h 11m
- GB
- Documentary
Production
Hopscotch Films, Crossover Labs, BBC Scotland
Tagline
DON'T BE AFRAID!
Storyline
Using only archive film and a new musical score by the band Mogwai, Mark Cousins presents an impressionistic kaleidoscope of our nuclear times – protest marches, Cold War sabre-rattling, Chernobyl and Fukishima – but also the sublime beauty of the atomic world, and how x-rays and MRI scans have improved human lives. The nuclear age has been a nightmare, but dreamlike too.
